(12-08-2015 08:34 AM)Hobbitgirl Wrote: The heat here has been awful. Like really awful. Cooking fish in the river kind of awful. This is Oregon ffs. We are supposed to rain! We haven't had any real rain for ages.

I lived in California's Central Valley, near Fresno, with temp that hover around 100 most of the summer and spike up to 110. I remember one summer in Fresno it was over 100 for 28 consecutive days and in one of those days it hit 116. When they calculated in the city heat it was closer to 120. I fried an egg on the road that day.

After living in the San Joaquin Central Valley, Oregon's summers are a piece of cake. These are some of the nicest summers imaginable to me.

(12-08-2015 08:34 AM)Hobbitgirl Wrote: The heat here has been awful. Like really awful. Cooking fish in the river kind of awful. This is Oregon ffs. We are supposed to rain! We haven't had any real rain for ages.

I lived in California's Central Valley, near Fresno, with temp that hover around 100 most of the summer and spike up to 110. I remember one summer in Fresno it was over 100 for 28 consecutive days and in one of those days it hit 116. When they calculated in the city heat it was closer to 120. I fried an egg on the road that day.

After living in the San Joaquin Central Valley, Oregon's summers are a piece of cake. These are some of the nicest summers imaginable to me.

We are having a huge heat wave here thiugh. Been sitting between 95 and 105 for a large part of the summer. Not normal for here.

So while it may not be that hot for other places. It's really bad for here.

I've always had a preference for cold, but it doesn't seem too bad this summer. Or maybe I just adapted a bit while I was living in Vegas. Or maybe it's just that I'm living in Canada now, and I'm judging the weather based on that comparison.

Even so, winter can't come soon enough. My son will be four by winter, which I think will be old enough that he'll get a kick out of getting the ice brick mold and making a snow fort. As much as I enjoy cruising around on the lake, summer gets old after a while. There's so much more to do when it's cold.

(12-08-2015 10:36 AM)dancefortwo Wrote: I lived in California's Central Valley, near Fresno, with temp that hover around 100 most of the summer and spike up to 110. I remember one summer in Fresno it was over 100 for 28 consecutive days and in one of those days it hit 116. When they calculated in the city heat it was closer to 120. I fried an egg on the road that day.

After living in the San Joaquin Central Valley, Oregon's summers are a piece of cake. These are some of the nicest summers imaginable to me.

We are having a huge heat wave here thiugh. Been sitting between 95 and 105 for a large part of the summer. Not normal for here.

So while it may not be that hot for other places. It's really bad for here.

I hope you have some sort of air conditioning. Baby Hobbits get so cranky in heat.... what with those hairy feet. Night's without air conditioning are especially bad. No one can get any sleep and everyone's a grouch until it cools off.

According to NASA's GISTEMP surface temperature data set 2014 set an all time record for annual global surface temperature at 0.745 degrees Celsius above the 1951 through 1980 average. The first six months of 2015 have been even warmer than the same period in 2014 by a tenth of a degree.

1998, the year many climate change deniers claim as the year warming ceased is now just the 8th (soon to be 9th by the looks of things) warmest year on record.